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Altar Code F is blast for me so far BTW.... Re-make done right if you ask me....

It's actually pretty terrible once you get further in. Most of the towns are half as large as they were originally, half of the spells were taken out, the dialogue outright breaks at certain points (NPCs print garbage text, literally), most of the Force Powers were removed, and the main addition was a few new characters, none of which you can use consistently until the final dungeon.

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Altar Code F is blast for me so far BTW.... Re-make done right if you ask me....

It's actually pretty terrible once you get further in. Most of the towns are half as large as they were originally, half of the spells were taken out, the dialogue outright breaks at certain points (NPCs print garbage text, literally), most of the Force Powers were removed, and the main addition was a few new characters, none of which you can use consistently until the final dungeon.

Yeah, I'm on that. The only improvement was the artwork and maybe *some* of the music. The graphics.... what the hell happened? Even for PS2 they were bad. It's nice to see that WA4 & 5 eventually turned out some of the better PS2 graphics you could find.... mostly at the cost of a palatable story (which turned into platitudinous dross.

Arbiter's Grounds was hella confusing at times, and got stuck quite a bit. However, the Spinner, the Arbiter boss, and the Ball & Chain in Snowpeak are probably some of the more badass additions to items as the Zelda series knows it. It's a freaking BALL AND CHAIN!! I love how it fucks EVERYTHING up in Snowpeak (a kind of tough dungeon, the non-stop freezing by enemies and the fact no hearts drop will probably make it one of the hardest 3-Hearts-Only dungeon runs). And I love how it isn't a "proper" dungeon either. The developers must have had fun.

Still slowly plugging away at the games I got for Christmas. I've played Skyward Sword the most since I last posted here, not that that's saying a lot. Not particularly fond of going to a brown area (the desert) straight after another brown area (the volcano). I thought for sure a water themed area would be next.

Besides those games, I've been playing yet another character in Skyrim. This time around I'm using cheat codes to spam dragon shouts without pause and making weapons with enchants that should not even exist. Now I can use Unrelenting Force to knock an enemy away from and then shoot it with a bow...a bow that also uses Unrelenting Force. :P

It's nice to see that WA4 & 5 eventually turned out some of the better PS2 graphics you could find.... mostly at the cost of a palatable story (which turned into platitudinous dross.

So on that note, would you suggest skipped out on playing through 2 and 3 and hopping straight into 4 or 5.... I was gonna go chronologically and squeeze XF in there somewhere, but maybe I'll reconsider... Also any oppinions on XF?

Four tried to grey things out a bit, and has one of the most "down to earth" endings I've seen in a jRPG. I just couldn't stand all the "you adults" "you kids" talk. I get what they ware trying to do, but it just got on my nerves after a while. Other than that four was awesome, with a ton of stuff to find, and a great battle system though the "XP reset" monsters ware a real pain during late game.

WA2 & 3 are worth playing for the puzzles, the combat and story are nothing special but like Dice said, they're palatable. The only challenge in those two games is from the puzzles, otherwise they're on the laughable side of easy, if you like Zelda-style dungeons they should be enjoyable though. WA2's translation is a complete mess too, often verging on incomprehensible - at times it sounds like it's been put through machine translation with no regard for context at all.

Finished Legend of Mana, so much "fluff" fun, so decided to play another PSX game...Final Fantasy VIII was the choice and @9 hrs into it I am seriously impressed!!! Still playing through Devil Survivor, about half through, really challenging and fun game. And 2 hours into El Shaddai, what an awesome looking game, the demo did NOT do it justice!

Final Fantasy VIII was the choice and @9 hrs into it I am seriously impressed!!!

It gets really dumb once you hit disc 2.

I played a bit of the first mission of Commandos. My disappointment with CoH led me to other WW2 game. Also gonna play some Close Combat 2 maybe.

Anyway, list of stuff I bought from various holiday sales:

Steam:

Company of Heroes

Gamersgate:

Silmarils CollectionCommandos PackRaptor: Call of the ShadowsEU3: Heir to the Throne

GOG:

The Incredible Machine PackThe Last ExpressKnights and MerchantsCall to Power 2Crusader: No RemorseStarflight 1+2Lands of Lore 1+2Zork NemesisRise of the TriadAge of Wonderslittle Big Adventure 2Journeyman Project 2Psychonauts

Matrix Games:

Distant Worlds

Half Price Books:

Kohan 2

Conclusion: I have attention deficit disorder. YAYS!

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but that whole killing his employer thing was really shocking. It also seems like I did it a quest too early and may not be able to complete it if I get it.Started up Fire Emblem again. It's hard to multi-task the way it asks me to, but I like it. Not sure why I stopped. Maybe I didn't like not being able to repeat maps or something?